I searched through the YP doc set and removed as many leading slash characters that were being used in pathnames as possible. There are a few "~" characters in some of the very specific examples that I left. But for the most part, directory name usage is consistent now.
Scott >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:yocto- >[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton >Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 2:49 AM >To: Robert P. J. Day; Scott Rifenbark >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [yocto] should yocto filename references start with a leading >slash? > >On Wednesday 06 November 2013 14:12:17 Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> currently reading ref manual, section 6, and i'm seeing filename >> references of the form /meta-yocto/conf, /scripts/oe-setup-builddir, >> and so on. >> >> is it really appropriate for those filenames to begin with a leading >> slash? it seems unnecessary, and possibly a bit misleading. is there a >> reason for those leading slashes? > >I'd have to agree, there should not be a leading slash. I see there are some >paths in the reference manual where we use $HOME/poky/ as a prefix, those >should probably also be removed. > >Cheers, >Paul > >-- > >Paul Eggleton >Intel Open Source Technology Centre >_______________________________________________ >yocto mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
